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  • jim 22:01 Just saw 2012, the movie. OMG too long. I wanted all the characters to die by the end.
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  • tinypliny 00:16 Aarrrgh. Home remedies without basis
  • tinypliny 00:16 because it doesn't
  • tinypliny 00:15 Unless they mean it increases the white cells - which makes no sense
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Jim's Journal from 07/2007
07/05/07 22:04 - 74ºF - ID#39932Category: marketingAstroturfing
Today at work I was talking with e:Paul and e:Tony(?) about wikipedia, which is when companies or organizations try to create the image of broad or spontaneous support from the general public but really it's all bought and paid for and basically just sleazy marketing (astroturf, as in fake grass - not really grassroots).

Paul was talking about how Sprite faked up rap concerts and paid cool kids to go and look cool and the broadcast it all on MTV as though everyone else was paying to be there, when really Sprite was footing the bill. So now Sprite is the face of of rap or something ridiculous.

Read through some of those examples on the linked wikipedia page - how cynical do you have to be to try something like this?

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07/06/07 09:45 - 70ºF - ID#39961Category: gardeningTomatoes
Porch farming:

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07/06/07 18:22 - 76ºF - ID#39969Category: buffaloMisc Photos
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Neighborhood Fireworks

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Mirrored Room

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Freaky Baby

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Blue Devil Phallus

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07/06/07 19:49 - 72ºF - ID#39970 pmoblMissed One




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07/06/07 22:49 - 72ºF - ID#39977Category: appleGelato at Dolce's
I've been trying to email this photo up, but it disappears in to the aether. So I will post it like a normal person and then sign off for the night big_grin

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We walked down the block to Dolce's with the dog. Our new place is so close to everything, there is so much more to walk to and see then at our old place near Hodge.

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07/07/07 20:53 - 76ºF - ID#39996Category: moviesTransformers
Transformers was awesome. Sorry for doubting you e:enknot and e:mrdeadlier.

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07/07/07 23:41 - 72ºF - ID#39999Category: utahUtah Wildfires Tonight
My dad's house may burn down tonight. Depends on the wind. No rain in 4 months and everything's turned to tinder. They are packing up the truck. If firefighters come back, it will be to tell them to evacute.

I remember the fire last year as e:james and I came out of the paria slots up into Escalante - pillar of smoke covering half the horizon for three days after. A bizarre cap to our hike, which was two days in and aborted due to lack of water. I was pushing so hard to get put of the canyons I ended up with sunstroke, and had to wait in meager shade at the trailhead watching the fire take up more and more of the sky, while James hitched back to our car.

I'm also thinking about as a kid i'd watch fires on mountainside near our home, seemingly hovering midair at midnight, char and smoke of sap and sweet smelling wood. Fearsome, a guilty pleasure to watch - enjoying it but knowing people's lives were being destroyed.

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07/08/07 19:53 - 80ºF - ID#40009 pmoblMugging


e:James does his zombie face when I try to take his photo.



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07/10/07 22:54 - 84ºF - ID#40046Category: buffaloSt Joseph's New RC Cathedral
Today at lunch I was talking to e:Paul and e:enknot about the Cathedral at Utica and Delaware in Buffalo (some more links), construction of which started in 1912. Its two massive bell towers held the largest carillon of church bells in the country, but they were only rung once and had to be removed because they endangered the structural integrity of the towers once rung. "The largest bell was 4,000 lbs., the smallest twenty-five. The whole cost $25,000 ($435,000 in 1997 dollars). It was the largest carillon in America at the time."

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The twin steeple towers had to be removed 10 years later in the 1920's due to other structural defects, and by 1975 the entire Cathedral had to be torn down because of defects in construction, and the marble facing peeling away from the brick central walls.

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07/11/07 17:29 - 76ºF - ID#40057Category: workRoswell Lunches
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I love having lunch at Roswell. Today I had stir fry veggies and chicken. It is hard to think about packing a lunch and bring it in, but I should start doing that to save money.

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